Who has the funniest stock nationals story?

[daveracerdsh]

With the nationals coming up pretty soon...I got to thinking about all the "interesting" adventures I have been involved in over the years when it comes to nationals week. I will get the ball rolling.....at the time I did not think the week was all that funny, but now 5 years later I do. 2008 was the last time we were at Whitney Point...and the week started out with Ric Hannon, myself, Kyle Bahl and Kyle Hannon driving down to the Pocono Nascar race. Of course..my rental car blows a tranny an hour or so from the race.....and some of the boys decided what a great time to drink beer! Sitting on the side of the freeway waiting for another rental car! Of course, the new rental cars battery goes dead while we were watching the stupid race....and by that point Rick decides...ummm...I am driving back to Whitney Point..good call Rick! I had a middle of the pack D stock that year....and finished I think 3rd the first elim. The second elim I got 5th....and while putting back into the pits I noticed...hmmm...sure seems to be a lot of water in boat. Of course..I blew the bottom out of boat. I was gonna scratch, but JW Myers and Rick grabbed me by the hair and walked me back to the boat, which by this point already had the motor off and was upside down or something like that. I said ..Great! Lemme get to work! Again...JW and Rick grabbed me by the hair and said no no....you are going to get wood....and beer! Don't even THINK of trying to work on boat...you are sorta cursed. Lol. So...like a good boy, I went into town and got everything needed to fix boat...and lots of beer! The cool think about having everybody working on boat was people signed the bottom....some things I can't...umm...print here. First final heat...I was in 3rd I think...and another racer NAILS me in the turn...blows windshield out and kills motor. Of course...he gets DQd...and so did I...for being the stoppage of the heat! Lol..what a neat rule. Things went fine after that....until I get to the Binghamton airport to fly home. There were thunderstorms all over the place...and my original flight was delayed a while. No big deal. US airways put us on a plane to Philly....then I was supposed to go from there to Seattle. NOT SO FAST! The pilot starts the engines...we get pushed back..then we just stop. US Airways needed the plane in Washington DC...so sorry folks..you have to get off! At this point the terminal was pretty empty.....aside from the 2 pilots from original flight and 6 passengers left. (including myself) Well...they finally get clearance to put us on original flight...so on we go. Pilots take plane onto runway...gun the engines...then stop. They had run over the legal FAA limit for hours. Back to the terminal we go. The gate agent says...sorry...there are no flights out till at least thursday. We were all like...huh. And...it is raining out...no taxis...no hotels in area...nothing. And the security personel are telling us we need to leave terminal. To make a long story short...one of the passengers was the wife of an admiral...and she grabbed a rental car lady (who was there to pick up her purse or something she forgot) and said you WILL rent us a car. Lol. 6 of us, including Brian Palmquists brother, a monk, a lesbian, her girfriend, myself, and the admirals wife drove all night to Philly, where we could get flights home. And...the funniest part about the whole thing? The monk kept looking for places to buy beer on the way! What an experience. Dave

[Racerkyle20]

Seriousl Dave, you and rental cars......

That was a fun year. 08 Stretchy Hannon and I did the 3000 mile trip by ourselves, plus a stop in Depue for the Pro Nationals. Awesome 3 1/2 week trip! Highlights of that trip:

1. Above mentioned story
2. Boston with Billy Allen, including a Red Sox game
3. NYC with Stretch. Stayed in a hostel in the Harlem neighbordhood with Yankee game in old yankee stadium.
4. 5 Cent tour of New Jersey Coast with Ms. Stacy Runne
5. DSH final behind guido I made it out of the first turn fine!
6. You can go 60mph to your.....Those who know that story can fill out the rest!
7. JW put a baseball size hole in his 1100ccr block, scared the hell out of me because I thought the piece was coming back at me after I roped it over!
8. Oh yeah we actually raced too! Finals in CSR, CSH, DSH.

Who says Nationals trips are just for racing!

[daveracerdsh]

tru that

yep. cant wait to hear other racers stories,,,,

[daveracerdsh]

number 6

kb,,,,,i think the qoute from stretch was....u can xxxx my cxxx at 60 mph...lmao.

[Bill Huson]

You want stories? Grab a few cases of Rolling Rock, chill them, light off a good campfire, assign the seat of honor to Craig Bowman and listen up - Craig is a master story teller, and lemme tell you, he got some tales . . .

[daveracerdsh]

Bowman

I seem to remember one of the Bowman brothers putting hot chili peppers into one of the food trays at the 91 nationals banquet....filling the room with eye watering smell.....

[dwilderacer]

91 Nats

I had just graduated high school and went to PA with my buddies that were all leaving the sport for college! We were doing typical 18 year old stuff, when one night Craig came down to our camp. Craig sat and told us hours of stories, drank all of our beer then got up to go back to his camp. Then he turned around, told us the Army Corp. MP's were coming to him with complaints about some teenagers. "You wouldn't know who they are talking about, would you? Shouldn't be a problem tonight...You're out of beer, Good night boys"

[rumleyfips]

We were sitting in a village resteraunt during the 79 Saranac Nationas when two local cops came up to the table and asked for me. They had 2 Waddington NY CSH driver in tow and said they found them stealing a boat. They said it was yours and they were playing a practical joke said cop 1 ; DO YOU KNOW THEM he barked.

Ya , I said, its OK. DO YOU WANT TO CHARGE THEM? No, no I said they're friends. Fine said the cops we'll make them put your boat back and they all left. We went back to eating nacos and drinking Coronas.

John

[daveracerdsh]

Stealing

I sometimes wish my D stock hydro would dissapear sometimes....think of all the money I would be saving!

[Redneckerson]

88 Stock Nat

Watching Steve Vincent running drunk through the pits at night.

[daveracerdsh]

vincent...

lol..no way....

[daveracerdsh]

bump

bump bump. Come on folks....stop working on race stuff and give us some funny stories!

[Adams52R]

Vincent

I recall Steve celebrating just a bit too much! Fun to see a quiet intense racer let loose a little. At the time I remember being shocked. His win was awesome!

[DeanFHobart]

1975 SO Nationals Dayton, Ohio

bump bump. Come on folks....stop working on race stuff and give us some funny stories!

OK. Circa, 1975 SO Nationals, Dayton, Ohio, Hydro Bowl, Eastwood Lake.
The first year for the SO Nationals at the new Hydro Bowl was the year before in 1974. Rusty Ray wrote a book about the 1974 SO Nationals called, "Speed and Spray, 1974 Stock Outboard Nationals". Of course, everyone read that book. So the 1975 SO Nationals at the same place, everyone wanted to get their name in that book again, so the 1975 Nationals
had over 1000 entries. There were 103 A Stock Hydros... There were 10 Elimination Races for A Stock Hydro... which ment you had to win your elimination race to get into the finals.

About Wednesday, the wind came up and they delayed the Elimination Races for awhile. Then about 2 hours into the delay, over the loud speaker,
Fred Miller's voice, "Doug Boyer will be taking his B Stock Hydro with a Mark 20H out on the race course to let us know if the water is OK to race."

Doug got his BSH on plane and up the front stretch, thruogh the first turn, then let it rip full speed down the back stretch, 20H growling and cackling at full throttle. Then you guessed it, a$$ over tea kettle, up side down in the back stretch. Dougie was OK.

But then over the loud speaker Fred Miller's voice, "Well, I guess it's still too rough to race". Everyone in the pits, howling with laughter.

Good memories, good friends, and great racing.

Best Regards To All,

Dean Hobart..... Racing boats since 1962.

[Big Don]

To add to Dean’s story…

I believe when Doug hit the shore he yelled to Miller, “It’s fine let’s go racing”.